for living with diabetes

We’ve reported before on Type 1 diabetic Simon Carter’s Manage BGL, which now has a PredictBGL App that provides dose calculation as well as prediction of blood glucose hours ahead – even overnight. It can be used by people on insulin pumps, non-pumpers, CGM sensor users and non-CGM-ers.

The PredictBGL App can share blood sugars, carbohydrates, insulin and the resulting prediction information to all carers – a boon for stressed parents with Type 1 diabetic kids at school or T1 teenagers away from home. Current systems tend to share just blood sugar data without any context. The ManageBGL.com Open API allows third parties such as hospital ward monitoring systems to pull down graphs of future blood glucose levels and any predicted warnings or intelligent coaching messages.

This service carries a small fee after a trial period. The free iOS App is available in the App store, and a free Android App will be available shortly. Data can also be viewed and analysed through the ManageBGL.com website. The next release of PredictBGL will support Apple Watch. The App will show recent blood glucose data such as that from a CGM, but also shows predictions of where the blood sugar is going, and alert the user to forecast low blood sugars.

This news item first appeared in Desang Diabetes Magazine, our free-to-receive digital journal. We cover diabetes news, diabetes management equipment (diabetes kit) and news about food suitable for a diabetic diet. Go to the top of this page to sign up – we just need your email address.